Quote by Herman Melville
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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strength
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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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Madness
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience
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Survival
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Survival

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Survival

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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. – Confucius, Analects

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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. – Audre Lorde

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson

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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. – William Godwin

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